Remembering the ‘Mormon’ Olympics that weren’t

Before California’s Prop 8, HBO’s “Big Love,” “American Idol” David Archuleta, two presidential candidates and “The Book of Mormon” musical, there was the first “Mormon moment” ­­— the 2002 Winter Games.
The Salt Lake City Olympics were like “a coming-out party for Mormons,” says Hank Stuever, who covered the Games as a feature writer for The Washington Post, “that gave people a vernacular about Mormonism they didn’t have before, and that [interest] has sustained itself in pop culture.”
Before t...